8 years and changing to dispatch - Question

So, you have ZERO experience in dispatching, but you already offer your services...
Interesting.

 

Reo, thanks for your work on the forum. That post was a painful but necessary truth, a really good summary of what the life is like. I was a construction guy forever and the same truths apply there. When that ended and I became a driver, it was kind of funny how my boss would call me every few days to see how things were going. He wondered why there were no problems and all was going swimmingly. How you do that? LOL.

 

LOL...I have a driver I never see. She works a short swing shift loading tankers and the oil company basically dispatches her. She comes to work after I've gone home, picks up an email from the oil company, loads the trucks, helps out in the shop if she has a short night, and is long gone by the time I come to work.
Okay, I exaggerated a little...I did see her about three years ago at the company picnic and once in awhile I talk to her on the phone if there are delays or rack hang ups. She's been working here about seventeen years and usually takes care of her own problems.

 

Gotta agree with you on that one!

 

Figure out something you wanna do in life make it 100% your mission to do a better than any living person on this planet. Anything else you’re just wasting time. It is a decision to be a loser or a winner, what are you gonna be today? I challenge you to win. So if you want to be a dispatcher, you should already be employed at a trucking company tomorrow. You’ll be working on getting all your tasks done and at night when you’re supposed to be asleep, you’ll be working on a proposals to new customers, bringing in work to the company. Anything less you’re going through the motions. Forget your personal life, focus on tasks and goals and do it better and harder than anybody else.

 

Just so you know. There are thousand of “dispatcher/broker” Hindus that book a load and resell it trying to skim $50. You might want to stay away from trucking in general at the moment.

 

Most of the dispatch services that you get solicited are from Lahore. They are not Hindu..,wrong country.